:00:00. > :00:00.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me,
:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to North West Tonight with Roger Johnson and Annabel Thffin.
:00:00. > :00:12.Seven years after she disappeared, a man is charged with the mtrder
:00:13. > :00:19.A second man's remanded in custody accused of a serious sexual offence.
:00:20. > :00:31.A police officer admits falsely obtaining CCTV footage of Steven
:00:32. > :00:33.Hen Harriers Sky and Hope disappear without trace.
:00:34. > :00:45.The signals from their satellite tags are lost.
:00:46. > :00:47.Barrow is officially the least happy place in thd UK
:00:48. > :01:19.Paige Chivers went missing after a family row.
:01:20. > :01:21.A second man's been charged with an offence related to sexual
:01:22. > :01:24.Both men appeared before magistrates in Blackpool today.
:01:25. > :01:28.With a few belongings packed in a suitcase, Paige Chivers left
:01:29. > :01:31.home after a row in 2007 and was never seen by her family ag`in.
:01:32. > :01:49.Lancashire Police began one of its biggest ever investigations.
:01:50. > :01:51.Nearly 3,000 people have bedn spoken to as part of the inpuiry.
:01:52. > :01:53.More than 1,200 statements were taken.
:01:54. > :01:55.In April this year, the investigation gained new
:01:56. > :01:57.momentum with the offer of a reward for information.
:01:58. > :02:01.A week later the police searched a property in the town.
:02:02. > :02:11.She went missing seven years ago and deadly enquiry we have made has led
:02:12. > :02:13.us to conclude that she had been murdered.
:02:14. > :02:15.In May, officers began looking for Paige's
:02:16. > :02:18.More searches followed, and two men were arrested.
:02:19. > :02:24.Today, they appeared before magistrates in Blackpool
:02:25. > :02:37.The first man is charged with murder and perverting the course of
:02:38. > :02:42.justice. Second faces a third charge of assisting the first in the
:02:43. > :02:46.disposal of the remains. Both men will appear before Preston Crown
:02:47. > :02:50.Court next week. A third man, 2 years old and from Blackpool, who
:02:51. > :02:55.has been questioned on susphcion of attempting to sit `` pervert the
:02:56. > :02:57.course of justice has now bden released on police bail, pending
:02:58. > :03:01.further enquiries. Paige's background has been
:03:02. > :03:02.described as troubled. Her mother had died six months
:03:03. > :03:07.before her disappearance. Her father, here making an `ppeal
:03:08. > :03:10.for help in catching his datghter's killer, was himself murdered last
:03:11. > :03:20.year in a row over a ?20 note. A former Merseyside police officer
:03:21. > :03:31.has admitted improperly tryhng to obtain CCTV images of the Lhverpool
:03:32. > :03:33.captain Steven Gerrard. Helen Jones has been accused
:03:34. > :03:35.of attempting to seize the footage so that others could
:03:36. > :03:38.commit criminal activity. This afternoon she pleaded guilty
:03:39. > :03:40.to misconduct in a public office. Our reporter Lindsey Prosser is
:03:41. > :03:52.at Preston Crown Court. Helen Jones changed her ple` to
:03:53. > :03:56.guilty of misconduct in a ptblic office. The Crown Prosecution
:03:57. > :04:00.Service say that last year, she tried to obtain CCTV footagd of the
:04:01. > :04:04.Liverpool captain involved hn an argument with another man knew to
:04:05. > :04:08.his home in Formby. The prosecution say that she tried to do th`t by
:04:09. > :04:14.going into a bank and claimhng that she was actually on duty with today
:04:15. > :04:18.the prosecution said they dhd not accept her entrance for her guilty
:04:19. > :04:22.plea. This is that throughott the investigation that she was deceitful
:04:23. > :04:25.and the belief that she was trying to obtain the CCTV footage so that
:04:26. > :04:30.other people could engage in criminal activity. This is something
:04:31. > :04:36.that the defence denied. Thhs is something that the defence denied.
:04:37. > :04:41.They activity to come from our obtaining that CCTV footage. The
:04:42. > :04:45.case has been adjourned unthl next week when witnesses could bd called.
:04:46. > :04:48.A Merseyside drugs baron who modelled himself
:04:49. > :04:51.on the infamous Colombian cocaine dealer Pablo Escobar has bedn
:04:52. > :04:55.ordered to pay more than ?240,0 0 or face more time in jail.
:04:56. > :04:59.Christopher Welsh Junior from Wirral had enjoyed lavish holidays, before
:05:00. > :05:02.he was convicted together whth his father, of supplying cocaine
:05:03. > :05:09.Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of a man who didd after
:05:10. > :05:12.being attacked at Manchester's Parklife music festival this summer.
:05:13. > :05:15.26`year`old Robert Hart from Macclesfield died in Jtne,
:05:16. > :05:18.five days after he was punched to the ground in Heaton Park.
:05:19. > :05:35.Police are still searching for his killer.
:05:36. > :05:36.Cumbria's police and crime commissioner says he'll
:05:37. > :05:39.look at claims of historic child abuse at a South Lakeland school
:05:40. > :05:43.Two men want the police to open an investigation into sexual
:05:44. > :05:46.and physical abuse at Underley Hall in Kirkby Lonsdale which closed
:05:47. > :05:49.Richard Rhodes will reply to the men next week and wants anyone
:05:50. > :06:13.else who suffered abuse at the school to come forward.
:06:14. > :06:16.They started with prayers, but they were soon onto porn.
:06:17. > :06:19.These walls have rarely heard the kind of subject matter
:06:20. > :06:34.And this was the response to calls for Councillor Bleakley to puit
:06:35. > :06:40.It was all about Councillor Bleakley.
:06:41. > :06:43.His text messages had previously elicited this response
:06:44. > :07:00.His bullying and his phone bill had meant he had broken
:07:01. > :07:04.And that is driving the council crazy.
:07:05. > :07:07.If a council officer or any other employee for that matter had
:07:08. > :07:10.undertaken those acts they would have been fund guilty
:07:11. > :07:35.So there were calls for a change in the law.
:07:36. > :07:39.In the here's an idea. One do have a certain stand`rd of
:07:40. > :07:48.morals. I'm joined now by
:07:49. > :08:00.Wigan MP Lisa Nandy. He has apologised and paid back the
:08:01. > :08:26.money that he spent on the chaplains. Is that not enough? ``
:08:27. > :08:32.chatlines. This man thinks that six falous
:08:33. > :08:36.funny, and I think that there is an absolute insult to the people he
:08:37. > :08:45.represents but to every single person across the Wigan Borough ``
:08:46. > :08:57.sex crime. At the end of the day we live in a
:08:58. > :09:04.democracy. It is up to the people to vote him out.
:09:05. > :09:10.Yes, but David Cameron said that when politicians break that bond of
:09:11. > :09:14.trust with the public, we whll bring forward legislation to remove them.
:09:15. > :09:20.This will do absolutely nothing to give the public the ability to kick
:09:21. > :09:24.out this independent councillor in Wigan. That is not good enotgh. We
:09:25. > :09:30.have two more years to go and every woman in the bottle as up in arms.
:09:31. > :09:39.What do you want to see dond? Do you want to see the standards board
:09:40. > :09:43.brought back? There is a calpaigning group called 38 degrees that has
:09:44. > :09:46.brought forward an alternathve will from the government that wotld cover
:09:47. > :09:52.councillors and would also give power to the public. Providdd that
:09:53. > :09:56.safeguards can be built in so that safeguards can be built frol
:09:57. > :10:00.speaking out on issues that they cared about, I think that's seems
:10:01. > :10:04.like a much more sensible w`y forward and what we need now is for
:10:05. > :10:08.the government to get involved and help push for a bad bill so that the
:10:09. > :10:12.people in Wigan do not have to have another two years with a man who is
:10:13. > :10:22.frankly an insult to every woman in the borough. The petition only has
:10:23. > :10:26.120,000 signatures on it. There have been a number of people. A lot of
:10:27. > :10:31.reaction in the media and the press. The trouble is that when
:10:32. > :10:35.people get in touch, or of reaction in the media and the press. The
:10:36. > :10:39.trouble is that when people get in touch, or be done. At the moment,
:10:40. > :10:44.people are signing petitions asking to get rid of this man, but nobody,
:10:45. > :10:46.including me, has the power to do anything about it. That is `
:10:47. > :10:49.situation that cannot go on. Why trading mug shots
:10:50. > :10:54.for muffins has helped Louise bake And as life such a drag this year,
:10:55. > :11:16.or does this man disagree? Two of the rarest birds of prey
:11:17. > :11:19.in England have vanished without The young female hen harriers called
:11:20. > :11:24.sky and hope had only recently left their nest sites in the fordst
:11:25. > :11:26.of bowland, after being born to one of just four
:11:27. > :11:31.breeding pairs in the country. Hen Harriers have been part
:11:32. > :11:36.of a long running conflict with the grouse shooting industrx,
:11:37. > :11:52.but the two birds disappear`nces June 2014 and the forest becomes
:11:53. > :12:03.home to the first hen Harridr checks to fledge in England for many years.
:12:04. > :12:08.It is devastating news that they have gone missing. We fitted them
:12:09. > :12:14.with satellite technology, `nd since then the RSPB has been monitoring
:12:15. > :12:18.with these birds have been calling. Sky disappeared on the 10th of
:12:19. > :12:23.September and the other dead on the 13th of September. The technology is
:12:24. > :12:29.designed to last for three xears and are said to really feel. Ond theory
:12:30. > :12:35.is that the birds have been shot. We expect something catastrophhc.
:12:36. > :12:41.Schumann intervention is thd main reason why they are in such a
:12:42. > :12:45.fragile bleeding state. Tonhght illegal persecution of birds has
:12:46. > :12:53.been condemned and speculathon has been deemed unproductive. Ndws of
:12:54. > :12:59.the disappearances has, as ` cause `` a shock to pupils at a ndarby
:13:00. > :13:04.primary school which had adopted five birds including sky. It is a
:13:05. > :13:07.huge tragedy. The job reallx related to the hen Harriers. Becausd they
:13:08. > :13:13.were so close to boot children, they became part of the skill falily
:13:14. > :13:17.They are Blu`ray and they are endangered, so I'm really worried. I
:13:18. > :13:21.thought that he might have fallen away and his tank had fallen. Yes,
:13:22. > :13:29.it is a bit of a heartbreakhng discovery, really. For now, all the
:13:30. > :13:32.school can do is wait for ndws. The RSPB has said that they havd
:13:33. > :13:34.reported the disobedience of the birds to the police and is offering
:13:35. > :13:38.a reward for information. Two weeks today voters in Hdywood
:13:39. > :13:41.and Middleton will go to the polls to choose
:13:42. > :13:43.a replacement for Labour MP Jim Last week we reported on thd UKIP
:13:44. > :13:48.campaign, today Stuart Pollhtt has been in the constituency
:13:49. > :13:51.following the Green Party These streets used to be
:13:52. > :14:04.something of a stronghold. The party controlled
:14:05. > :14:07.the local council until 2010 and for years had the biggest political
:14:08. > :14:11.figure in these parts. Cyril Smith was once an assdt,
:14:12. > :14:16.not anymore. Despite all the scandal,
:14:17. > :14:18.that's not something that's going to Other people, in the Rochdale
:14:19. > :14:24.constituency, where it was `n issue, I did last time
:14:25. > :14:33.so I'll probably stick with that. On the doorstep, Anthony Smhth,
:14:34. > :14:35.is pushing his local credentials and s`ys he's
:14:36. > :14:38.in it to win it despite suggestions We have some challenges to overcome,
:14:39. > :14:49.but we're plodding along with our campaign,
:14:50. > :14:51.trying to portray the posithve aspect of the differences the
:14:52. > :14:54.Lib Dems have made in government. Above the streets of Heywood
:14:55. > :15:02.sits Scout Moor Wind Farm. The biggest onshore developlent
:15:03. > :15:14.in Britain. The party hoping to pick up some of
:15:15. > :15:21.the Lib Dems disaffected voters is debating the issue of this wind
:15:22. > :15:27.farm. Is it potentially award winner or not? And there is a diffhcult one
:15:28. > :15:30.with some of the ball `` locals It is worth listening to them `nd
:15:31. > :15:31.finding a solution that fits everyone.
:15:32. > :15:33.Greens didn't even field a candidate here in 2010.
:15:34. > :15:42.Now they think they can make inroads.
:15:43. > :15:51.We are going to get the decor and we hope we will get more supporters and
:15:52. > :15:55.members. With neither party likely to cause a political shock hn this
:15:56. > :15:57.by`election, they are at le`st pressing the flesh for everx
:15:58. > :16:01.And this is the full list of candidates in the Heywood
:16:02. > :16:13.Residents living in Stockport and High Peak say their lives could be
:16:14. > :16:16.put at risk if Stepping Hill isn't chosen as a specialist hosphtal
:16:17. > :16:20.Proposals drawn up by the Healthier Together scheme stggest up
:16:21. > :16:23.to five hospitals in Greater Manchester will tre`t the
:16:24. > :16:27.All the others will carry ott routine and planned procedures.
:16:28. > :16:31.Our health correspondent Elaine Dunkley reports.
:16:32. > :16:36.Stepping Hill is a hospital fighting for specialist status.
:16:37. > :16:38.Here at Stepping Hill we ard currently building
:16:39. > :16:42.It's a big surgical centre which looks after a populathon
:16:43. > :16:49.Stepping Hill already delivdrs amongst the very best outcoles
:16:50. > :16:52.for the whole of the North West of England consistently,
:16:53. > :17:01.either in planned surgery or emergency surgery.
:17:02. > :17:04.We think that puts us in a perfect place to be ond of
:17:05. > :17:09.Healthier Together says resources and expertise are spread too thinly
:17:10. > :17:15.in emergency surgery in Greater Manchester.
:17:16. > :17:18.By concentrating services on fewer sites, more lives will be s`ved
:17:19. > :17:30.Many residents who use Stepping Hill live in rural areas.
:17:31. > :17:34.Anne Parkinson recently had emergency surgery at Stepping Hill.
:17:35. > :17:38.She lives in Buxton and belheves if she had to go further
:17:39. > :17:40.for treatment, she would have died in the ambulance.
:17:41. > :17:47.Peritonitis had already set in, so that would have got worse and worse.
:17:48. > :17:54.It might have just been the turning point in me surviving or not.
:17:55. > :17:57.So far, over 10,000 people have filled out the Healthier Together
:17:58. > :18:00.consultation, but some residents outside of Greater Manchestdr feel
:18:01. > :18:05.Stepping Hill is the hospital that everybody
:18:06. > :18:09.in the High Peak goes to for most of their significant treatmdnt.
:18:10. > :18:16.To actually ignore what is a very natural catchment area for a
:18:17. > :18:19.major hospital in this area, and the one which serves our communhty, it
:18:20. > :18:43.The Healthier Together constltation ends on 30th September.
:18:44. > :18:46.Many people decide to have ` change of career but few can be as drastic
:18:47. > :18:50.In the space of a couple of years she's gone
:18:51. > :18:56.And it turns out that she's pretty good, even being nominated
:18:57. > :19:05.Our reporter Eno Eruotor can join us live from Louise's cake shop
:19:06. > :19:19.Huge hand away from those c`kes `` keep your hands away from those
:19:20. > :19:24.cakes! I have seen what a lot of c`kes and
:19:25. > :19:29.they have not had any yet! The shop has been here for four years, but as
:19:30. > :19:32.you say, the owner of the shop has been in business for five ydars and
:19:33. > :19:38.her main ambition in life initially was to trace `` chase criminals
:19:39. > :19:44.Somehow she has ended up on the cake baking business. That is a real
:19:45. > :19:47.change. How did that happen to Mac I studied in Manchester and dhd a
:19:48. > :19:53.degree in criminology then loved to London to get another degred in
:19:54. > :19:59.forensics. I love the natur`l wail. I wanted to move back to Manchester
:20:00. > :20:03.to pursue the police but it was just bad timing. Thousands of jobs had
:20:04. > :20:08.been cut and I spend a lot of time moving up and in the countrx trying
:20:09. > :20:11.to get into any police forcd. Unfortunately, it wasn't to be and I
:20:12. > :20:16.had taken inspiration and come up with something else. That is a real
:20:17. > :20:21.change calling from criminology to baking cakes. I know that you seem
:20:22. > :20:27.to 2000 `` use salt 2000 of these every week, but you learned how to
:20:28. > :20:36.bake online? I did. It was `ll Internet videos, read `` recipe
:20:37. > :20:43.books. I watched other people do it online. As you learned to b`ke
:20:44. > :20:50.online, who were your main inspirations? It was that once in
:20:51. > :20:54.London. Hummingbird, Primrose. They make real American cupcakes, not
:20:55. > :20:58.your average free kick that you see in the supermarket, but truly big
:20:59. > :21:02.American cupcakes. You have been in business five years, the shop has
:21:03. > :21:05.been here for four years, and businesses: Well, but in th`t time,
:21:06. > :21:11.we have seen a lot of busindsses come and go to to the recession
:21:12. > :21:17.What is the secret to your success? Definitely, hard work. I work seven
:21:18. > :21:22.days a week. I had just abott to get something from itself, but ht has a
:21:23. > :21:26.other end. I have lots of things: `` coming in the pipeline. Going from
:21:27. > :21:35.strength to strength. Selfrhdge s, lots of independent delicatdssens.
:21:36. > :21:41.Thank you. Good luck to you. Louise is often not in teams as we speak,
:21:42. > :21:51.back to the studio. `` off to Milton Keynes.
:21:52. > :21:54.Sport now and Richard, therd's been some fascinating cricket at Emirates
:21:55. > :21:56.Old Trafford with Lancashird's fight against relegation going to the
:21:57. > :22:23.Lancs just linked to win thd game in order to stay up, however, Liddlesex
:22:24. > :22:28.ended the third day on 202 for four in the second innings. Lanc`shire
:22:29. > :22:34.need to take sex workers tolorrow and then knocked off a victory
:22:35. > :22:46.target and they will stay up. `` deemed to take sex wickets. `` ``
:22:47. > :22:54.six wickets. Liverpool will host Swansea
:22:55. > :22:56.and holders Manchester City face Newcastle in the fourth round
:22:57. > :22:59.of the Capital One Cup next month. While Bolton lost narowly at Chelsea
:23:00. > :23:02.in last night's third round action, City thumped Sheffield Wedndsday
:23:03. > :23:03.seven nil. Amazingly it was 0`0 at half time
:23:04. > :23:06.before Frank Lampard was While there were also a couple
:23:07. > :23:11.of goals from Edin Dzeko. Jesus Navas, Yaya Toure and
:23:12. > :23:14.Jose Angel Pozo on his debut with Well, apparently if you hail
:23:15. > :23:20.from Barrow`in`Furness, the answer According to
:23:21. > :23:23.the latest national well`behng survey from the office of n`tional
:23:24. > :23:26.statistics, Barrow is the ldast Beccy Meehan has been
:23:27. > :23:46.to find out more. What do they mean unhappy? We have a
:23:47. > :23:51.lot going for us. Battle is officially the least happy place in
:23:52. > :23:56.the country. Not everybody `grees. I think we are a friendly sort. Even
:23:57. > :23:59.before I was on the televishon, I could go to local supermarkdts, and
:24:00. > :24:05.one of the reasons I came b`ck to the parent is that it was friendly,
:24:06. > :24:09.if you go to the pub, peopld will pull to you. There is a gre`t
:24:10. > :24:15.community spirit. I am horrhfied by that survey. Nationally, we had in
:24:16. > :24:22.getting happier over the last three years, but people here rate fear
:24:23. > :24:28.happiness at a measly 6.7 ott of ten. Not a lot to be happy `bout. It
:24:29. > :24:33.used to be ever such a nice tone, but things have gone downhill very
:24:34. > :24:38.quickly. Everything seems to be closing, more and more shops, but I
:24:39. > :24:44.don't know, I like it up ye`r, I think it is lovely. I am not
:24:45. > :24:52.bothered. People are really nice. Jobs are a big issue, with
:24:53. > :24:55.unemployment year at 7.3%, to 6 2% nationally. But national be`uty
:24:56. > :25:01.abounds in Cumbria and according to one expert, the key may lie outside
:25:02. > :25:05.economic. The thing that makes people the happiest as whether they
:25:06. > :25:08.have good Jewish and ships. Whether that is happiness in the workplace
:25:09. > :25:13.or the community, or whether the treaty as a community. Regardless of
:25:14. > :25:51.the statistics, battle has hts fans. Good evening. There was not a lot of
:25:52. > :25:57.cloud cover at times today `nd just living. The good news is th`t
:25:58. > :26:01.tomorrow will improve. The reason is that you're in this warm sector
:26:02. > :26:08.that triangle keeps a lot of cloud, and ones that cause the sun comes
:26:09. > :26:12.out and it freshens up a bit. A few spots of drizzly rain over the
:26:13. > :26:15.weekend, but there will be `n awful lot of dry weather as you hdad
:26:16. > :26:21.through the weekend. Temper`tures will be good. This week, we are
:26:22. > :26:26.still on that one sector, cloud cover and it will be spots of rain
:26:27. > :26:37.more than anything cohesive. You'll see a bed of drizzle the land then,
:26:38. > :26:42.but most places have a quitd late. You will not need the shoothng on
:26:43. > :26:46.tonight, and when you get up tomorrow, you'll have that cloud
:26:47. > :26:51.cover around, but the limits of a cold front that goes through very
:26:52. > :26:59.quickly indeed. Any rain yot will hardly even noticed. Much brighter
:27:00. > :27:02.skies which get past lunch time Through the afternoon, hardly a
:27:03. > :27:11.cloud in the sky for many places. When the front goes through the
:27:12. > :27:21.Northwest, temperatures 18 or 1 Celsius this afternoon, but tomorrow
:27:22. > :27:32.67 hours of sunshine and 16 Celsius. `` six or seven.
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